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Dave Mustaine revived Megadeth in the mid-2000s, remastering and reissuing his band's entire Capitol catalog and hitting the concert circuit in earnest. Greatest Hits is part of that revival. It's the second Megadeth best-of, replacing the one from five years prior, Capitol Punishment. Greatest Hits is an improvement, loaded with 17 selections, three more than its predecessor. There's also some fancy packaging and a hyperbolic "Love Live Megadeth" tribute written by Penelope Spheeris, the colorful director of The Decline of Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Metal Years. It all adds up to a nice package, or more precisely, a sampler of Megadeth, from the band's pioneering thrash metal years to its later growing pains, with an unfortunate de-emphasis on the band's beginnings. Like the previous best-of released by Capitol, Greatest Hits overlooks much of Megadeth's prime years in favor of a balanced sample of selections from every album released by the label. There's going to be a large chunk of the market that is going to groan about this approach, since the early thrash years are the reason most Megadeth fans are fans in the first place, and also the reason why the band has been able to ramble on all these years despite some mostly dull new music. Since Megadeth released so many albums for Capitol, there's never room here for more than two tracks per album: Peace Sells, Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, and Youthanasia get two representations, the rest get only one.
Condition:NEW. Slashed case
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Holy Wars...The Punishment Due 6:32
2 In My Darkest Hour 6:26
3 Peace Sells 4:02
4 Sweating Bullets 5:26
5 Angry Again 3:47
6 A Tout le Monde 4:25
7 Trust 5:12
8 Kill the King 3:42
9 Symphony of Destruction 4:06
10 Mechanix 4:21
11 Train of Consequences 3:32
12 Wake Up Dead 3:38
13 Hanger 18 5:12
14 Dread and the Fugitive Mind 4:23
15 Skin O' My Teeth 3:15
16 She-Wolf 3:39
17 Prince of Darkness 6:28
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